Cell phone video image of a woman walking her dog with her car in Stockton, CA

STOCKTON, CA (CNN) — A woman will likely face charges after her attempt to walk her dog could have gotten the animal killed, and it was all caught on camera.

A concerned citizen captured video of the woman driving around in her car with a dog on a leash frantically trying to keep up. The video went viral and outraged animal lovers.

Now authorities are looking for the woman for possible animal cruelty charges.

“If you have a dog and you don’t feel like getting out to walk it, then you shouldn’t have a dog,” Amanda Brajkovich, who followed the woman in her car and recorded the video, told KOVR-TV. The video immediately got the attention of the Stockton Animal Services Department.

“(It) presents to me a bigger problem in our society,” said Phillip Zimmerman, Director of the Animal Services Department. “We have a lack of humane education not only for adults, obviously in this case, but children as well.”

Zimmerman points out that a child was in the car to which the dog was attached, watching and learning.

“If we don’t teach children that this isn’t okay, this is what happens,” he said.